Sailboat Signed Victor Adam

Painting representing a sailboat signed by the painter ADAM Victor Charles Edouard (1868 - 1938) official painter of the navy they eldest of the painter Edouard Adam, brother of Edmond Adam, Victor continues in the style of his father, creating paintings in oil, between 1890 and 1910. It depicts steamships at the turn of the century. His father was appointed official painter of the navy in 1885 and this sailboat portraitist attracted shipowners, captains, and even port pilots to his home, all of these clients wanted as exact a representation of their ship as possible. Adam transmitted his vocation to his son and can say that the Adams are ship portrait painters. The end of the 19th century marks the beginning of the steam navy, so these paintings represent this modern evolution of new technologies.